Robotics

Identifying and Purchasing Resistors

Robots use many resistors on their circuit boards. These resistors are so crucial for electronics that they would not operate without them. Therefore, it is important to know how to identify resistors if one wants to build or analyze an electronic part...

Recommended Additional Features for Multimeters in Robot Building

In order to make robot building even more efficient, you don't only purchase any multimeter, but you can purchase one with extra features that are not typically included in basic multimeters. Although the price will be higher, it is well worth the...

Manipulation Robotic Systems: AutomaticType Robot

Manipulation Robotic Systems, an integral part of many industrial manipulators, are mainly divided on the basis of the type of control system they have. Automatic robots, a type of manipulation robotic system, are considered to be one of the earliest...

The Future of Robotics

This article explains the future of robotics, including their usage in home, factories, hospitals and biomimetics. Presently it appears more like fiction, but in the next few decades all this will become fact.

The Brains and Body of a Robot

Robots are an essential part of technology today. However, most people overlook the similarities robots have with humans, in terms of a control center and a structure. Two key components of most robots are the brains, in the form of microcontroller chips...

Honda Asimo - How Long to Robots in the Home?

You must have seen them in movies. You must have read about them in novels. They were fictitious, but currently live. Who are we speaking about? Indeed the humanoid robots! Yes, they are ready to work for you as your servant! Read on to learn...

PID Loop Tuning Methods for Robotics

PID loop tuning is a programming method that allows a user to vary any combination of three variables to produce the desired effects within a closed system. Here we will discuss common forms of PID tuning as well as situations in which no PID is needed...

Dealing with Decommissioned Industrial Robots

After a robot has outlived its normal utility, its disposal becomes a challenge for the enterprise using it. Resale, sending to a scrap yard, using it for land-fill, and recycling are some of the options available for decommissioned robots.

Medical Robotics

Medical robotics is an interesting discipline that is related to human health of all individuals. Their use is becoming popular due to their numerous advantages in the medical field.

Self-Learning Control System Concepts Simplified

Control system design and operation have improved with the advance of technology, but the basic premises of their functioning and optimization are necessary information for today's engineers. One can think of them as complicated feedback systems,...